Bart Farrell
Host

The one and only Bart Farrell will once again bring his unmatched energy as our charismatic host for an unforgettable Edgecase experience — and this year promises even more.

Dan Acristinii
Product Manager Edge Foundations
at Roche

Dan Acristinii is a Global Product Manager for Kubernetes Edge Infrastructure at Roche. With a background in business, finance, and economics, he combines financial insights with technical expertise in coding and cloud-native solutions. Dan specializes in driving innovation and operational excellence in complex environments, delivering engaging presentations that bridge business strategy with advanced Kubernetes infrastructure solutions.

Niyazi Erdoğan
Experience Lead Edge Foundations
at Roche

Niyazi Erdoğan is an Experience Lead for Edge Foundations and Senior DevOps Engineer at Roche. Passionate about User Experience Design, he views UX as the fundamental core of meaningful technology solutions rather than just a process. Niyazi leads experience initiatives for edge foundations, ensuring complex technical solutions remain user-centered and accessible in our increasingly connected technological landscape.

Justin Garrison
Head of Product 
at Sidero Labs

Justin is an engineer with extensive cloud native and infrastructure experience. He is the author of Cloud Native Infrastructure and has built products used by hundreds of millions of users around the world. He believes deeply in Sidero Labs' mission and the ability to improve infrastructure. If people are still maintaining new servers with SSH, then Sidero Labs still has work to do.

Jonathan Gonzalez
Senior Staff Software Development Engineer 
at EDB

Jonathan Gonzalez is a Senior Staff Software Development Engineer at EDB, a maintainer of the CloudNativePG project, and active open source contributor. Passionate about technology and growth, Jonathan sees himself as a lifelong learner, always exploring new ways to improve and share knowledge. 

Erwin de Keijzer
Principal Consultant
at TrueFullstaq 

By day, Erwin is a Principal Consultant / DevOps Engineer at TrueFullstaq, consulting companies on how to best implement cloud native principles on the public cloud and how to develop applications to fully embrace what new technologies can offer. At night, he turns into a chindōgu engineer (look it up on Wikipedia, it's awesome). Tinkering with stuff like adding music to his home elevator or connecting his garage door to the internet. His presentations always come with a dose of humor and self-deprecation. And if it all works out, you'll learn something too.

Brandt Keller
Software Engineer
at Defense Unicorns 

An engineer obsessed with bringing cloud native best practices to places the cloud can’t always reach? Meet Brandt Keller! At EdgeCase 2025, he'll share how a ‘cloud native-airgap’ mindset flips traditional delivery on its head, hardening the software supply chain, shrinking operational toil, and empowering mission-critical systems to thrive whether they’re in a data center, a desert, or on the deck of a ship. 

Casper Nielsen
Principal Platform Architect 
at Novo Nordisk

Casper Nielsen is Principal Platform Architect at Novo Nordisk, where he is the technical owner and architect of Heimdall, the company's Internal Developer Platform. With over four years at Novo Nordisk, he leads technical roadmaps and provides leadership to more than ten senior engineers across multiple platform capabilities. Casper specializes in building cloud native solutions using open source technologies, including Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Grafana, and Backstage, with expertise spanning platform engineering, SRE, and application security. He's passionate about creating scalable, reliable enterprise solutions that enhance developer experience while ensuring compliance and security.

Emanuela Zaccone
Staff Product Manager
at Sysdig 

Met meer dan tien jaar ervaring in het stimuleren van innovatie in techproducten, combineert zij haar expertise in AI en beveiliging om impactvolle oplossingen op schaal te leveren. Gepassioneerd door het vereenvoudigen van complexe technologie, zet zij zich in om de toekomst van cloudbeveiliging vorm te geven door middel van AI-gedreven inzichten. Emanuela heeft ook een achtergrond in digitaal ondernemerschap en is een ervaren spreker. Zij heeft gepresenteerd op verschillende tech-events (waaronder KCD), webinars gehost over de rol van AI in cloudbeveiliging, en deelgenomen als panellid bij onderwerpen zoals vrouwen in tech.